Press review

2022

• Dec. 24: Igreja Universal: Brazil's Pentecostal Church and Its Worldwide MissionExternal link. Article about a Brazilian Pentecostal church with expertise from the Research Center for Religion and Education.
• Feb. 24: Mother's workshop designed: City and university are partners in strengthening parenting skillsExternal link. TV report from JenaTV on 23.02.2022.

2021

• Oct. 11: Will the handshake return?External link Tweet about the Beziehungsweisen (Ways of Relating) workshop on 15.10.2021.
• Jul. 16: Excellent teaching even in the pandemicExternal link. Report on the awarding of the FSU Jena Teaching Prize to Prof. Michael Wermke, Dr. Sophie Seher, and Fahed Al-Janabi.

2020

• Nov. 2: Christian Faith and Political VigilanceExternal link. With "I Protest," a volume of teaching materials on Pastor Paul Schneider, who was murdered in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1939, is now available, in: Evangelische Kirche im Rheinland (Evangelical Church in the Rhineland).
• Oct. 20: Expert conference "Guilt, Atonement, and Forgiveness in confessionally-cooperative religious education."External link Report from the Pedagogical-Theological Institute Neudietendorf.

2019

• Jun. 20: A day that has a lasting effect, in: Glaube und Heimat (Faith and Home). No. 26. About an excursion to the Buchenwald Memorial with students and pupils in memory of Paul Schneider.
• Feb. 23: Educational institutions as places of recognition: The Friedrich Schiller University Jena also trains educational professionals in Southern Thuringia to become culturally and religiously sensitive consultants, a press release from the ZRB.

2018

• Aug. 18: Radio Lotte Weimar: Certification course - A culturally and religiously sensitive professional development for teachers and educators, in: Stadtzeit am Morgen (City Time in the Morning).
• Jun. 20: Article by Hanno Müller, "Prejudices in kindergarten: When children ask difficult questions," in: Thüringer Allgemeine of 20.06.2018, p. 4.
• Apr. 12: Radio feature by Henry Bernhard, "Religious education in the Weimar Republic," in: Deutschlandfunk, Aus Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften (From Cultural and Social Sciences).
• Mar. 21: Press release by Stephan Laudien, Friedrich Schiller University Jena: Religious Education in the Weimar Republic (idw, focus.de).
• Jan. 2: "Lifting the treasure of knowledge."External link Press release on the third-party funding for the project "Daring to be Different - Highlighting Common Ground" by the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Thuringian Ministry of Migration, Justice, and Consumer Protection.

2017

• Dec. 17: Press article about a lecture by Prof. Dr. Wermke on topics of culturally and religiously sensitive education (Glaube und Heimat 50 (2017)).
• Oct. 13: Press release on the certificate presentation to the participants of the certification course "Daring to be Different - Highlighting Common Ground" (FSU JenaExternal link, idwExternal link).
• Mar. 25: Newspaper article "Why do people die" (Ostthüringer Zeitung).
• Mar. 23: Web article "Courses for religious education" (Jena TV).
• Mar. 21: Press release "Breaking the Fast in the holiday calendar" (idw).
• Feb. 1: Web article/audio feature "Separate religious education - a model on the way out?External link" (detektor.fm).

2016

• Dec. 30: Audio feature/interview "It's time for Christians to get involved in sociopolitical issues again"External link (Deutschlandfunk).
• Dec.: Newspaper article "Outstanding source for local history of Stotternheim, Nöda, Mittelhausen, and Schwerborn on the internet" (Heimatblatt Stotternheim).
• Nov. 14: Newspaper article "From the school desk to the churchExternal link" (Glaube + Heimat).
• Oct. 26: Web article "Daring to be Different - Highlighting Common Ground. Educators from municipal daycare centers are currently training to become "External linkConsultants for intercultural and interreligious communication" (Stadt Jena).
• Sep. 29: Newspaper article "Japanese researcher studies Jena Plan" (Thüringer Landeszeitung).
• Sep. 28: Press release "Jena Plan in Japan. Japanese educational scientist researches reform pedagogy at the University of Jena" (Mitteilungen der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).
• Sep. 8: Press release "Schiller and Confucius. Educational scientist from Taiwan researches the German education system"External link (Mitteilungen der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).
• Jun. 26: Newspaper article "Finding peace for oneself and others: Jena theologians help young people with thisExternal link" (Ostthüringer Zeitung).
• May 19: Web article "Lecture series on 'Flight and Asylum'"External link (Jena TV).
• May 13: Web article "Expert day on integration in schools on May 18 in Jena"External link (Jenapolis).
• May 13: Newspaper article "Finding flexible solutions at a conference in Jena: How integration in East Thuringian schools can succeed"External link (Ostthüringer Zeitung).
• May 13: Press release "How integration in school succeeds"External link (Mitteilung der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).
• May 10: Web article ""Glaube + Heimat" now digital"External link (www.mitteldeutsche-kirchenzeitung.de).
• Apr. 29: Web article "Church newspaper 'Glaube und Heimat' digitally availableExternal link" (Jena TV).
• Apr. 27: Press release "`Glaube und Heimat´ digitally available"External link (Mitteilungen der FSU).
• Jan. 5: Press release "The changing image of the family"External link (Mitteilungen der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).

2015

• Dec. 13: Web article "An act of selflessness. Why we like to give presents at Christmas"External link (Sonntagsblatt).
• Jun. 29: Press release "Colonialism in the Age of Postmodernism"External link (Mitteilungen der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).
• Jun. 22: Press release "Recognition for young scientists"External link (Mitteilungen der FSU).
• May 1: Web article "Religious education: a dying model? Prof. Dr. Nikolaus J. Knoepffler [...], the head of the Ethics Center at the University of Jena in conversation with Prof. Dr. Michael Wermke, the holder of the Chair for Religious Pedagogy."External link
• Apr. 27: Press release "Pros and cons of religious education. The Ethics Center and the Center for Religious Pedagogical Research cooperate on the event series 'ta ethika' in the summer semester 2015"External link (Mitteilungen der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).
• Apr. 5: Interview: "School and religion [...]. The Jena theologian Michael Wermke on the role of religion and ethics in the classroom and why both subjects should be strengthened"External link(Thüringer Allgemeine).
• Apr. 4: Web article: "Easter mutates into Christmas in spring"External link (Die Welt).
• Apr. 2015: Magazine articles "The power of religious speech"External link (Uni-Journal Jena)
•  Apr. 2015: Magazine articles "Religion belongs in the curriculum"External link (Uni-Journal Jena).
• Mar. 25: Web article: "Happy Easter: Even more consumption" (SWR1).
• Feb. 19: Press release: "The power of religious speech. International symposium 'Religious Speech in Post-Secular Societies' from 23 to 25 February"External link(Mitteilungen der FSU).
• Feb. 19: Web article: "The power of religious speech" (Jenapolis und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).
• Feb. 6: Web article "EKM calls for strengthening religious education at vocational schools" (Jenapolis).
• Feb. 5: Press release "EKM calls for strengthening religious education at vocational schools. Fit for working life with religious education" (Evangelische Kirche in Mitteldeutschland).
• Feb. 2: Web article "Religion belongs in vocational schools"External link (Jena TV).
• Jan. 2015: Magazine article "Public education against atheism" (Uni-Journal Jena).
• Jan. 30: Web article "Religion belongs in the vocational schools of Central Germany" (Jenapolis).
• Jan. 30: Press release "Religion belongs in vocational schools"External link (Mitteilungen der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).

2014

• Nov. 3: Press release "Public education against atheism"External link (Mitteilungen der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).
• Oct. 31: Interview "'Parents have the right for their children to be raised religiously'"External link(Thüringer Allgemeine).
• Jul. 2014: Magazine article: "Celebrating Sugar Festival and Easter together" (Uni-Journal Jena).
• May 15: Press release "Celebrating Sugar Festival and Easter together"External link (Mitteilungen der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).

2013

• Oct. 25: Press release "Spiral-shaped curriculum instead of a pillar model" (Mitteilungen der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).
• Jun. 1: Newspaper article "Local history with the help of the Thuringian 'Heimatglöckner'" (Thüringer Allgemeine).
• May 16: Newspaper article "New record: Over 1600 participants in the 3rd Jena company run" with mention of the ZRB running team (Thüringer Allgemeine).
• May 16: Newspaper article "'My boss forced me': 1633 participants in the Jena company run" with mention of the ZRB running team (Thüringer Allgemeine).
• Feb. 22: Magazine article "Non-denominational is not the same as atheist" (Idea).
• Feb. 14: Web article "Theologians at the University of Jena organize a conference on 'Non-denominationalism today'" (Mitteilungen der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).
• Feb. 14: Press release "When God is just a side issue" (Mitteilungen der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).
• Feb. 11: Press release "Religious answers to questions of daily life" (Mitteilungen der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).
• Jan. 2013: Newspaper article "A shunned pedagogue. The curatorship and chair for religious pedagogy reconstruct the history of today's Ernst Abbe monument at Fürstengraben" (Uni-Journal Jena).

2012

• Sep. 22: Newspaper article "A deep crisis in teacher training" (Thüringer Landeszeitung).
• Sep. 22: Press release "Crisis in teacher training?"External link (Mitteilungen der FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).

2011

• Dec. 4: TV interview "Non-denominationalism in the new federal states" (Thüringen Journal MDR).
• Nov. 22: Interview "Mass phenomenon of non-religiosity" (Evangelischer Rundfunk).
• Nov. 15: Newspaper article "E.T. instead of Jesus - what does eastern Germany believe in" (The Epoch Times Deutschland).
• Nov. 2: Newspaper article "How unbelieving is Thuringia?" (Bild Thüringen).
• Oct. 29: Newspaper article "New center for educational research asks what the East believes in" (Ostthüringer Zeitung).
• Oct. 28: Press release "E.T. instead of Jesus - what does the East believe in?"External link (Mitteilungen des FSU und idw - Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).